"Wrack Zone"

from Decades: Selected Poems

Friends, my new book, Decades: Selected Poems, will be available at the end of the month! So, I thought I’d share another poem from the book.

“Wrack Zone” was written while living on the desolate coast of Humboldt County, California, seventeen years (yikes!) ago.

Decades is really an autobiography filtered through poetry, but the life depicted is as an observer, a witness, to changing light and seasons, and there’s a subtle narrative to the changing light and seasons within the observer, as well as an increasing sense of a spiritual reality.

I hope you’ll buy a copy!

More details to come…

—JM

Wrack Zone

It’s the ocean
sounding out

a panic
I otherwise

couldn’t
pronounce.

Ouroboric
vowel fixed

to a low sky’s
loop of

variable white.


•


Decayed
rope of

bull-head
kelp

distends
from tide-

tamped
sand.

Mind
mirrors

that surface,
shape,

the moment
I imagine

if I thought
far enough

I’d leave my
face.